6. Which of the following was not a consequence of the British Land Revenue
Policy in India ?
(A) Increasing impoverishment of the peasants
(B) Growing peasant indebted-ness
(C) The spread of landlordism
(D) The ruin of artisan indus-tries

28. Which of the following state-ments is not true about Rigvedic Aryans ?
(A) They lived in villages.
(B) They did not know gamb-ling.
(C) They practised polygamy.
(D) Family was the unit of social life.

48. Which of the following is regar-ded as the early Jaina Text ?
(A) Sutra Kritang
(B) Tripatika
(C) Mahavastu-Avdana
(D) Avdana Kalpalata

49. Which of the following is a Harappan port ?
(A) Alexandria
(B) Lothal
(C) Mahasthangarh
(D) Nagapattanam

50. The commonest term for peasan-try in early medieval North India isâ€”
(A) Kutumbin
(B) Bhogin
(C) Baddhahalika
(D) Swami

51. By Mauryan times the main sea-port of the Ganges basin wasâ€”
(A) Sopara
(B) Bhragukachchha
(C) Patala
(D) Tamralipti

52. Which of the following is not an Antyaja ?
(A) Chandala (B) Rajaka
(C) Nata (D) Yavana

53. Buddhism was introduced into Tibet fromâ€”
(A) The Pala Empire
(B) Harsha Vardhanaâ€™s State
(C) The Kushana State
(D) The Mauryan State

54. Which of the following state-ments is not true of Ashokaâ€™s Dhamma ?
(A) There was a stress on non-violence
(B) Capital punishment was discontinued
(C) Donation to Brahmans was stressed
(D) There was a concern for master-servant relationship

55. Which of the following commo-dities was a major item of export trade in the
Kusana period ?
(A) Cotton textiles
(B) Horse
(C) Gold
(D) Paper

56. Who among the following is described as a fabulously rich merchant in
Buddhist Jatakas ?
(A) Vanik
(B) Sarthavaha
(C) Setthi
(D) Apanika

Answers with Explanations :1. (C) 2. (D)
3. (All the four options of the question are not correct.)Khan Bahadur Khan, the successor of the former ruler (Nawab) of Rohilkhand,
led the Revolt of the Bareilly troops in 1857.4. (All the four options of the question are not correct.)
Khan Bahadur Khan of Bareilly, declared himself to be the Governor (Nazim) of
Bahadur Shah.
Nana Sahib declared himself as Peshwa, Kunwar Singh was a Zamindar of Bihar,
Tantia Tope was the army-chief of Nana Sahib and Bakht Khan was the army-chief
of Bahadur Shah.
5. (A) 6. (D) 7. (D) 8. (D) 9. (A)
10. (C)
11. (B) The All India Womenâ€™s Con-ference (AIWC), one of the oldest
voluntary organization in the country was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins,
an Irish Lady, who had made India her home. AIWC original concern was womenâ€™s
education but grad-ually it took up various social and economic issues
concerning women, such as Purdah, Child Marriage, Traf-ficking, Womenâ€™s
Property Right etc.
Today, AIWC has over 1,00,000 members in 500 branches all over country. It is
recognized as a premier organization working for Womenâ€™s Development and
Empowerment.
12. (C) 13. (B) 14. (A) 15. (A)
16. (C) The Al-Hilal was a news-paper established by Indian leader Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad and used as a medium for criticism of the British Raj in India.
The newspaper also espoused the cause of the Indian independence movement and
exhorted Indian Muslims to join the movement. The newspaper was shut down under
the Press Act of 1914.
17. (B) 18. (C) 19. (B) 20. (A) 21. (A)
22. (C) 23. (B) 24. (C) 25. (C) 26. (B)
27. (A) 28. (B) 29. (A)
30. (B) Panini was an ancient Indian grammarian from Gandhara. He is known
for his Sanskrit gram-mar, particularly for his formula-tion of the 3,959 rules
of Sanskrit morphology in the grammar known as Ashtadhyayi, the foundational
text of the gram-matical branch of the vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly
discipline of vedic religion. The Ashtadh-yayi is the earliest known gram-mar of
Sanskrit, and the earliest known work on descriptive ling-uistics, generative
linguistics, and together with the work of his immediate predecessors stands at
the beginning of the history of linguistics itself.
31. (A)
32. (D) Surkotada is an archaeolo-gical site located in India. It is famous
for horse remains dated to ca. 2008 BCE. The site at Surkotada is located 160
km north east of Bhuj, in the District of Kutch, Gujarat.
33. (D) 34. (C) 35. (A) 36. (C) 37. (A)
38. (D) The third Buddhist Council was convenced in about 250 BCE at
Asokarama in Patilputra, under the patronage of Emperor Asoka. The reason for
convening the third Buddhist Council is reported to have been to red the sangha
of corruption and bogus monks who held heretical views. It was presided over by
the Elder Moggaliutta Tissa and one thou-sand monks participated in the Council.
39. (B) History of Dharmasastra, with subtitle Ancient and Medie-val
Religious and Civil Law in India, is a monumental five-volume work consisting of
around 6,500 pages, and was written by Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane, an indologist.
The first volume of the work was publi-shed in 1930 and the last one in 1962.
The work is considered as Dr. Kaneâ€™s Magnum opus in English.
40. (B) 41. (D) 42. (B) 43. (B) 44. (C)
45. (B) 46. (D) 47. (B) 48. (A) 49. (B)
50. (A) 51. (D) 52. (D) 53. (A) 54. (B)
55. (A) 56. (C) 57. (A) 58. (A) 59. (B)
60. (D) 61. (B) 62. (D) 63. (C) 64. (B)
65. (C) 66. (C) 67. (B) 68. (B) 69. (B)
70. (A) 71. (C) 72. (D) 73. (B) 74. (B)
75. (A) 76. (C) 77. (D) 78. (C) 79. (D)
80. (B) 81. (B)
82. (A) Nasaqâ€“A subordinate met-hod of revenue assessment which could be
used under some major method of assessment. In this method, the revenue was
asses-sed on the basis of the previous figures of assessment.
83. (B) 84. (C) 85. (D) 86. (B) 87. (C)
88. (D) 89. (D) 90. (C) 91. (C) 92. (D)
93. (B)
94. (B) Haider Ali, born in 1721 in an obscure family, started his career as
a petty officer in the Mysore Army. Though uneducated, he possessed a keen
intellect and was a man of great energy, daring and determination. Haider Ali
soon found his opportunity in the wars which in valved Mysore for more than
twenty years. He established a Modern arsenal in Dindigal in 1755 with the help
of French experts. In 1761 he overthrew Nanjaraj and established his authority
over the Mysore state.
95. (C)
96. (B) Baji Rao I was a bold and brilliant commander and an ambitious and
clever statesman. He has been described as the greatest exponent of Guerrila
tactics after Shivaji hed by Baji Rao, the Marathas waged nume-rous campaigns
against the Mughal Empire. In 1733, Baji Rao started a long campaign against the
sidis of Janjira and in the end expelled them from the main-land.
97. (B)
98. (C)
99. (C) Farrukh Siyar owed his victory to the Sayyed brothers. Abdullah Khan
and Hussain Ali Khan Barahow who were there-fore given the offices of Wazir and
Mir Bakshi respectively. The two brothers soon acquired domi-nant control over
the affairs of the state. Farrukh Siyar lacked the capacity of rule. He was
cowardly, cruel, undependable and faithless. In 1719, Farrukh Siyar was deposed
and killed by Sayyed brothers.100. (A) The Subah of Avadh, exten-ding from Kannauj district in the west
to the river Karmanasa in the east, was a large and pros-perous region. It
became virtually independent in 1722 when a Persian Shia adventurer named Saadat
Khan was appointed its governor by Muhammad Shah.